06-85 James Birdsall 1783
06-85 James, Benjamin5,
Nathan4, Benjamin3, Nathan2,
Henry1
James
Birdsall was born in 1783 in Quaker Hill, Dutchess, New York, son of Benjamin
Birdsall and Elizabeth Akin Birdsall.
James married Rizpah Steere.
James
studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1806. He was the first lawyer to settle in Norwich,
New York and became surrogate of Chenango County, New York in 1811. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to
the Fourteenth Congress and was United States Representative for the fifteenth
district of New York from March 4, 1815 to March 3, 1817.
He was a
member of the New York State Assembly (Chenango County) in 1827. He was also one of the incorporators of the
Bank of Chenango. He moved to Fenton,
Michigan in 1839 and later to Flint, Michigan.
James
Birdsall died in Flint, Genesee County, Michigan on July 20, 1856 and is buried
at Glenwood Cemetery in Flint, Michigan.
Children of
James Birdsall and Rizpah Steere, surname Birdsall:
07-208 Henry
Hiram, b. 1834, m. Martha _____.
07-209
James, b. 1813, m. Jane Henderson, Raisin Valley, Michigan
07-210
Adelaide, b. 1815, m. William Fenton, Lt. Governor of Michigan in Fenton, MI.
Note 117 in The Birdsall Family states:
Adelaide,
1815 m. William Fenton. They had: Ada
1839, m. Creary; Henry 1841; J. Brush 1843; and Henry 1851. Rizpah 1826 m. Charles Sutton. A photostat copy of a letter sent by “Aunt
EM” to “Kathryn” gave much of this information.
“Aunt EM” is Emma Birdsall 1876, m. Walter H. Brown. “Kathryn” is Kathryn Birdsall 1887 m. Carl
Breitenkamp. Aunt Em said in her letter
to her niece that Elizabeth, Rizpah and Catherine were “maidens,” and that
letter was written about fifty years after the maidens were born. From another source, I presume from the
HISTORY OF CHENANGO AND MADISON COUNTIES, the three maidens were married as
shown. They may have become married
after Aunt Em wrote the letter. In the
same letter Aunt Em says Rizpah gave one million dollars to fund a cat
hospital. There was also an indication
that Rizpah may have been married a second time to a Mr. Kellogg. Interested persons should search further in
Genessee County, Michigan.
07-211
Sarah, b. 1819, m. Henry DeLay (or Dillaye), Syracuse, NY
07-212 Elizabeth,
b. 1821, m. Henry _____.
07-213
Benjamin, b. 1823, m. G. Russey, Fentonville, Michigan
07-214
Rizpah, b. 1826, m. Charles Sutton on Nov 11, 1851 in Flint MI.
07-215
Catherine, b. 1833, m. Johnson
07-216
Maurice, b. 1829, m. J. Baily, Fentonville, MI.
Source:
The Birdsall Family, George A.
Birdsall, 1982, pg. 50 and Note 117
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